Final War and Other Fantasies / In the Pocket and Other S-F Stories

<p>FINAL WAR ... IN THE POCKET... 26 science fiction stories written by Barry N. Malzberg in the late 1960s and early 1970s under his pen-name K. M. O'Donnell. Ace Books published the two collections as one half each of an Ace Double and they became Malzberg's first published anthologies- his announcement to the world that he had officially arrived and was ready to stir things up.</p><p><br></p><p>The <em>Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</em> described him as a master of black humour.</p><p><br></p><p>Brian Doherty in <em>Reason</em> magazine proclaimed Malzberg's writing to be incisive heartbreaking wildly imaginative and darkly hilarious.</p><p><br></p><p>Andrew Fox called him My Science Fiction Rabbi: The tales Barry tells are tales of crushed dreams and choked ambitions but they are also tales of exciting intellectual adventures friendships both literary and personal and a fellowship of minds devoted to human progress or at least to warning humanity away from its most base impulses and foibles.</p><p><br></p><p>And Harlan Ellison asserted that Malzberg one of the few writers in the world whom I will gladly happily loudly declare is a better writer than I am.</p><p><br></p><p>Enter the world of Barry N. Malzberg...</p>